AISI 205 Stainless Steel vs. Austempered Cast Iron
Both AISI 205 stainless steel and austempered cast iron are iron alloys. They have 67% of their average alloy composition in common. There are 24 material properties with values for both materials. Properties with values for just one material (7, in this case) are not shown.
For each property being compared, the top bar is AISI 205 stainless steel and the bottom bar is austempered cast iron.
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Mechanical Properties
| Brinell Hardness | 210 to 440 | |
| 270 to 490 |
| Elastic (Young's, Tensile) Modulus, GPa | 200 | |
| 180 |
| Elongation at Break, % | 11 to 51 | |
| 1.1 to 13 |
| Poisson's Ratio | 0.28 | |
| 0.29 |
| Shear Modulus, GPa | 77 | |
| 62 to 69 |
| Tensile Strength: Ultimate (UTS), MPa | 800 to 1430 | |
| 860 to 1800 |
| Tensile Strength: Yield (Proof), MPa | 450 to 1100 | |
| 560 to 1460 |
Thermal Properties
| Latent Heat of Fusion, J/g | 280 | |
| 280 |
| Melting Completion (Liquidus), °C | 1380 | |
| 1380 |
| Melting Onset (Solidus), °C | 1340 | |
| 1340 |
| Specific Heat Capacity, J/kg-K | 480 | |
| 490 |
| Thermal Expansion, µm/m-K | 18 | |
| 13 |
Otherwise Unclassified Properties
| Base Metal Price, % relative | 11 | |
| 2.9 |
| Density, g/cm3 | 7.6 | |
| 7.5 |
| Embodied Carbon, kg CO2/kg material | 2.6 | |
| 1.8 |
| Embodied Energy, MJ/kg | 37 | |
| 25 |
| Embodied Water, L/kg | 150 | |
| 48 |
Common Calculations
| Resilience: Ultimate (Unit Rupture Work), MJ/m3 | 150 to 430 | |
| 19 to 95 |
| Resilience: Unit (Modulus of Resilience), kJ/m3 | 510 to 3060 | |
| 880 to 3970 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Axial, points | 14 | |
| 13 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Bending, points | 26 | |
| 25 |
| Strength to Weight: Axial, points | 29 to 52 | |
| 32 to 66 |
| Strength to Weight: Bending, points | 25 to 37 | |
| 27 to 44 |
| Thermal Shock Resistance, points | 16 to 29 | |
| 25 to 53 |
Alloy Composition
| Aluminum (Al), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.050 |
| Arsenic (As), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.020 |
| Carbon (C), % | 0.12 to 0.25 | |
| 3.4 to 3.8 |
| Chromium (Cr), % | 16.5 to 18.5 | |
| 0 to 0.1 |
| Copper (Cu), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.8 |
| Iron (Fe), % | 62.6 to 68.1 | |
| 89.6 to 94 |
| Magnesium (Mg), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.040 |
| Manganese (Mn), % | 14 to 15.5 | |
| 0.3 to 0.4 |
| Molybdenum (Mo), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.3 |
| Nickel (Ni), % | 1.0 to 1.7 | |
| 0 to 2.0 |
| Nitrogen (N), % | 0.32 to 0.4 | |
| 0 |
| Phosphorus (P), % | 0 to 0.060 | |
| 0 to 0.040 |
| Selenium (Se), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.030 |
| Silicon (Si), % | 0 to 1.0 | |
| 2.3 to 2.7 |
| Sulfur (S), % | 0 to 0.030 | |
| 0 to 0.020 |
| Tin (Sn), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.020 |
| Vanadium (V), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.1 |